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NNPC Boosts Power Supply By 3,056mw

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, said it supplied 689 million standard cubic feet of gas per day, mmscfd to power plants in the country in the month of March 2017, an equivalent of 3,056 megawatts (MW) of electricity.

The NNPC, in a statement in Abuja, on the release of its March 2017 edition of the Monthly Financial and Operations Report, also stated that the average national daily gas production for the month of March stood at 226.918 billion cubic feet, bcf, which translates to over 7.319 million standard cubic feet of gas per day, mmscfd.

It stated that the increase in gas supply would support the efforts by the Federal Government to boost electric power generation in the country.

In the statement signed by its Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, NNPC explained that the March 2017 gas supply was an improvement on the previous month’s supply which stood at 582 mmscfd, adding that the supply is also over 29 per cent higher than the corresponding supply record for March 2016.

The NNPC noted that the increase in gas supply was in spite of an increase in oil assets vandalism, as pipeline sabotage in the country increased from 49 downstream pipelines vandalized points in February 2017 to 94 in March 2017.

It declared that this represents over 91 per cent increase relative to the previous months despite Federal Government’s and the NNPC’s continuous engagement with the stakeholders.